In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation.
[1] As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, texts, the grammatical choices writers make, the importance of adhering to norms in certain contexts and deviating from them in others, the expression of social identity, and the emotional effects of particular devices on audiences.
Advice on the use of paragraphs may include the avoidance of incoherence, choppiness, or long-windedness, and rigid construction; and can be found in style guides.
For example: Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 (1599–1602) by William Shakespeare: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens: "Memories of Christmas" (1945) by Dylan Thomas: "The Strawberry Window" (1955) by Ray Bradbury: "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) by Martin Luther King Jr.: The writer's voice (or writing voice) is a term some critics use to refer to distinctive features of a written work in terms of spoken utterance.
The voice of a literary work is then the specific group of characteristics displayed by the narrator or poetic "speaker" (or, in some uses, the actual author behind them), assessed in terms of tone, style, or personality.